Small Ant-eating Spider Minasteron minusculum Baehr & Jocqué, 2000
Fauna Portal species: 367
Minasteron minusculum male, dorsal (HBI N5965-1; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2024)
Fauna Portal Image No. 9393Diagnosis
(after Baehr & Jocqué 2000): Males of M. minusculum are recognized by the carapace with only a faint dark margin and the pale abdomen; the ventral prong in the palpal tibial apophysis has more differently-sized tips than M. tangens; the question-mark-shaped loop on the tegulum encloses alarger area than in M. tangens; the main difference with M. petioliatum is in the shape of the tip of the distal tegular apophysis which has a smoothly rounded internal curve.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2000): Revisions of genera in the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae). The new genera Cavasteron and Minasteron. Records of the Western Australian Museum. 20: 1 - 30WEB